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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"kidnapping"”.
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Understanding career criminal kidnapping: a study of offending dynamics, subcultural tolerance and policing in Malaysia
I subscribe to the notion that criminology needs to seek information about crime from successful criminals. Alohan is a Malaysian, ethnic Chinese, Triad member, businessman and police informer who also kidnaps people for ransom. He is a serious offender who has, so far, escaped conviction for …
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Framing a Kidnapping: Frame Convergence between Online Newspaper Coverage and Reader Discussion Posts of Three Kidnapped Romanian Journalists
… unusual details about the circumstances of the kidnapping prompted the Romanian media to investigate the speculation regarding the authenticity and motives of this high profile case. This thesis project extends framing theory to incorporate macro-level frames such as cynicism, speculation and …
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Countering Kidnapping in a Globalised World: a critical analysis of the production, transfer and application of high security knowledge
… understanding of these processes with respect to kidnappings for ransom. The first two parts of the thesis provide a breakdown of the information provided by formal counter-kidnap documents, other ways of transferring high-security knowledge, and their barriers. A number of formal institutions and …
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NEITHER NORTHERN NOR SOUTHERN: THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1847
… that arose over fugitive slaves and the kidnapping of free African-Americans forced Philadelphians to confront the politics of slavery. This dissertation argues that until 1847, Pennsylvania was in effect a slave state. The work of proslavery groups, namely slave masters, their agents, …
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Terrorist Kidnappings for Ransom: Explaining Hostage Outcomes
… at the hands of terrorist groups have brought kidnapping and ransom policy to the forefront of the American psyche. In an effort to understand why hostages are released or killed in situations where a ransom is asked, we attempt to isolate and test key variables using a binary logistic …
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Kidnappings by violent political groups: Explaining between-group and within-group variations
Kidnapping is one of the most common tactics employed by violent political groups. It yields money, political concession, publicity, intimidation effects, among many others. However, notable violent political groups differ significantly in how frequently they engage in kidnappings. Meanwhile, even …
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State Failure in Venezuela
… security crisis based on the escalating rate of kidnapping, human trafficking, drug sales, smuggling, theft, gun distribution, and homicide. In this thesis, I use a mixed qualitative and quantitative method to demonstrate how the Venezuelan state is failing to mitigate the economic and security …
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The Evolution of Al Qaeda's Financial Network
… activities, including narcotics smuggling and kidnapping for ransom. It examines the formal and informal methods of moving funds. It also examines the financial and operational relationships between al Qaeda Central and its affiliates, and it details U.S. and international efforts to combat al …
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Odds and Clocks
… It is Annabel, through the telling of an unusual kidnapping story, who manages momentarily to form a compelling truth that best serves her personal agenda. However, the supremacy of a single truth presupposes the exercise of power over the others and Annabel’s actions result in Beatrice’s …
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Colombia's economic recession : the impact of guerrilla violence, illicit drug trafficking, and the 1991 constitution
… causing severe internal and external migration. Kidnapping, extortion, and infrastructure attacks represent the loss of million of dollars in economic damages. (2) The illicit drug trafficking is the second most important variable that has affected Colombia's economy, causing an economic domestic …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… to free blacks and many states passed anti-kidnapping laws which often placed obstacles to rendition. Slaveholders discovered that the costs involved in reclaiming an absconding slave often exceeded the slave's value, and because of Northern hostility to slave hunting, could be physically …
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Representation of Missing Children in National Television News
… (OJJDP). Some of the key findings are that: 1) kidnapping cases were over-represented when compared to the NISMART; 2) cases involving strangers as suspects were over-represented when compared to the NISMART; 3) African-American children were under-represented in the media when compared to all …
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Teaching and learning critical citizenship through visual arts in the intermediate phase at three primary schools : the South African paradigm
… and fighting, helping others, homelessness, kidnapping, loud neighbours, pollution and littering, stealing, hijacking, break-ins, watering trees and plants, rudeness, kindness, protecting the ocean, honesty, listening to parents and educators, donating money and food, criminals in prisons, …
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Singularity Deferred
… of those in power. Mitchel becomes the victim of kidnapping and torture by the government, a near-victim of an unknown group's act of mass murder, and is forced to lead a mutiny against a ship's captain. In the course of events, he learns the necessity of taking control of his situation instead of …
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Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico
… are regularly subject to abuse, extortion, rape, kidnapping, dismemberment and death as multiple actors profit off of their bodies, labor and lives. In turn, the political economy of violence and security along the migrant journey permeates into local Mexican communities, creating new tensions and …
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Bringing it all to the table : examining variance in strategic approaches within the six-party talk
… growth; Japan's push for a resolution to the kidnapping issue stems from politicians' aim for domestic political popularity made easier through Japan's lack of a history of relations with North Korea; Russia's realist drive derives from the Putin-led push to regain a semblance of its …
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A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America
… Inuit – including miming, drawing, writing and kidnapping “interpreters” – but were unable to recover their lost men or even learn their fate. During this frustrating period English-Inuit relations deteriorated steadily from friendliness to bloodshed. Frobisher’s experiences with the South …
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Prisoner Release as Conflict Management
… create a "prisoner marketplace" which makes kidnapping state personnel a viable insurgent tactic. But APRI is contingent; not all democracies executed an asymmetric exchange during counterinsurgency. An Historical Institutionalist, within-case study of Israel from 1978-2011, shows that …
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Drugs and Deportation on the Border: Post-Deportation Geographies of Enforcement and Conflict
… terrain. The third article addresses migrant kidnapping and the different purposes that it serves for transnational criminal organizations. Through ethnographic work, combined with in-depth surveys, this dissertation provides new analysis about the intersections of drug violence and migration …
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